A Challenge to Farrell Till
David Billo dbillo@telos.ca
Fri, 5 Feb 1999 10:17:26 -0500 (00918249446, 199902051514.KAA03364@telos.ca)
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> From: Brian Dean <bridean@worldnet.att.net>
> To: errancy@infidels.org
> Subject: Re: A Challenge to Farrell Till
> Date: Thursday, February 04, 1999 7:49 PM
>
> >TILL
> >That's your problem. You are the one who said that you would
> >debate "any other matter of alleged errancy" that I "wish to
> >discuss," and I wish to see you give reasonable evidence that
> >the NT's claim of a virgin birth is true. Perhaps you can prove
> >your position on this in the same way that you can prove such
> >claims as inerrancy in the original autographs or the existence
> >of demons or changing water that doesn't exist into blood.
>
> Matthew Bell
> I'm not so sure it is a problem, it just changes the focus of the debate
as
> we
> would need to first address the possibility/impossibility of miracles
> occurring
> before dealing with any alleged miracle claim.
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> BRIDEAN
> I don't know how Till will handle the above, but I would posit for the
> moment
> that miracles are possible. It is STILL up to Matt to prove that the
above
>
> alledged miracle took place.
DB
I predict that Farrell will propose topic after topic that are impossible
to argue without begging the question of the reliability of the bible. This
is really a debate about debating the inerrancy of the bible
(sorry, Brian, I just sent a response back to you instead of the list)
db